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Markoff process

DEFINITIONS OF: Markoff process

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n a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state

Synonyms:
Markov process
Types:
Markoff chain, Markov chain
a Markov process for which the parameter is discrete time values
Type of:
stochastic process
a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)
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